Oliver Pocock of Hayfield talks us through a typical day’s work in his role as engineering manager for a number of live developments across middle England.
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Louise Hardy, Independent Non-Executive Board Director at Crest Nicholson has today been announced as one of the top 100 Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector. The list, produced by board appointments firm Inclusive Boards in partnership with the Financial Times, was officially released at the Inclusive Boards: Women in Engineering Leadership Conference on Tuesday 22nd October 2019. Inclusive Boards will also be publishing extensive research into engineering in the UK as well as the results of their diversity survey of the UK’s top 500 engineering firms by revenue. Louise Hardy, Independent Non-Executive Board Director at Crest Nicholson said: “It is an enormous privilege to be recognised as one of the top Most Influential Women in the Engineering Sector, amongst a group of extremely inspiring
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In order to simplify the existing skills education market, regulator Qualifications Wales has announced a reform to streamline the system to just eight new qualifications. Currently, there’s an array of hundreds of qualifications but a consortium of City & Guilds and EAL (English as an Additional Language) who will be working with the regulator to design and deliver simplified but robust post-16 foundation, progression and apprenticeship qualifications. This comprehensive and robustly assessed system aims to remove the current complexities of planning a route into employment. Qualifications Wales (Cymwysterau Cymru) says the new post-16 qualifications will include an overarching foundation qualification in construction and the built environment, and progression and apprenticeship qualifications in building services engineering and construction. These will be available to
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Training body the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) says that the uncertainty of Brexit will not prevent the industry’s workforce closely approaching the heights of 2008. In its annual Construction Skills Network report, it says some 168,500 new construction jobs will be created across Britain over the coming five years, bringing the total to 2.79m in 2023, which is only 2% lower than at its peak prior to the Global Economic Crisis. The numbers are based on average annual industry growth of 1.3% in that time and while this is down a third on the 2018 report, and based on an EU exit agreement rather than a ‘No Deal’ scenario, its prediction of the creation of 168,500 jobs over this time is actually
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Nine industry organisations have collaborated to determine the construction trades suffering most in the UK’s continued skills shortage. The organisations – Association for Consultancy & Engineering, Build UK, Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA), Construction Plant-hire Association, Construction Products Association, Federation of Master Builders, Highways Term Maintenance Association, National Federation of Builders and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) – have published the list of 18 skills below and urged that the industry works more closely together to tackle the shortage crisis and accelerate recruitment for these essential roles. In alphabetical order, these are: Acoustic engineers Bricklayers Carpenters Ceiling fixers Chartered surveyors Civil engineers Construction and building trades supervisors Construction project managers Design engineers Dry liners General labourers Groundworkers Mechanical & electrical engineers
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